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[Change] If you try to minimize SC and have unsaved changes, choosing cancel/dontsave will now still minimize the program.

[Feature] When you have multiple arrows selected and change arrow properties, all properties are updated except text labels.

[Feature] You can now save and load object preset files (saves and loads all properties of objects like arrows, text memos, etc); you can select some objects and apply an object preset file to change the properties of the selected objects. It will save the settings of the current tool, or all tools if not in a specific object mode. See Objects menu. To show the Saved presets on the main toolbar (instead of as a submenu of Objects menu) see the "More Interface Options" tab.

v4.9.1 - October 10, 2014

[Feature] You can now control what happens when you hit Ctrl+C (see More Interface Options tab); previously it always did a context-sensitive copy-to-clipboard, copying currently selected region or object if there was one; you can now configure this to always copy whole image to clipboard.

[Feature] Copy-to-clipboard menus now show a more informative context-sensitive caption and include an additional item for copying whole image, in addition to copying selected region or object.

[BugFix] When option to auto add caption to printouts is enabled, it was removing any user-created caption at time of printing.

v4.9.0 - October 8, 2014

[MajorFeature] New action available when dropping an image file onto the current image: Combine images. Let's you easily line up images side by side with automatic scaling.

[Feature] Made it easier to abort scrolling and other capture operations (tray menu changes to display a cancel operation item).

[Feature] Added commandline option to change save file format.

[Feature] Added tools menu to SC system tray menu.

[Feature] When SC encounters an image file of a different format than the extension indicates, it is still loaded but a warning is shown.

[Feature] When SC encounters an error loading an image file, it reports the error and clears the current image selection.

[Feature] Select-region capture can now be performed in additional ways; you can use enter key or spacebar to start and end capture regions (escape cancels; cursor keys nudge; C toggles cursor; Z toggles zoom); quick single mouse click can also now mark start and end positions instead of holding and dragging.

[Feature] By default SC now checks if a capture is all white or all black, and reports the probable cause (interference from a Security App); see Tweaks option tab to turn this off.

[MinorFeature] You can now set a Screenshot directory that SC will always start with even if you changed directories on last run.

[MinorFeature] You can now use cursor (arrow) keys to adjust cursor location during shift+PrtScr selected region capture.

[MinorFeature] Added Up/Down keys to scrolling capture methods.

[MinorFeature] Better instructions for manual scrolling captures.

[MinorFeature] Better handling of canceled dropped file.

[MinorFeature] The warning about resizing images with objects can now be disabled.

[MinorFeature] Changed upload menu icon.

[MinorFeature] 'C' key in region-select mode can now be used to toggle off the display/capture of cursor.

[BugFix] DPI was sometimes not set properly if SC was set to not save image automatically.

[BugFix] It was possible to restore main SC window and then minimize it during scrolling capture, rendering all SC windows invisible.

[BugFix] Red box was flickering in object selection mode.

[BugFix] If using post-capture dialog after captures, and "stay hidden" option is chosen, main window was sometimes restoring if it was showing before capture was initiated.

[BugFix] Nudging selection with arrow keys in region-select mode had an annoying delay/stutter.

[Change] The MyJunk folder is no longer created automatically.

v4.8.5 - May 14, 2014

[MajorImprovement] Completely revamped the "manual" method of performing a scrolling capture, to make it easier to do your own scrolling on stubborn windows.

[MinorImprovement] Added some commandline options for use with an already running copy of Screenshot Captor.

[MinorFeature] You can now toggle the object-capture behavior to not present the "What Now?" dialog where you can choose scrolling capture, etc., and instead do an immediate object/region capture.

[Improvement] Improved sizing of columns in different detail view modes; new simple left hand list mode.

[Improvement] When set to stay minimized after capture, if SC was onscreen when capture initiated, it would jump to front and not always relinquish foreground window after completion. Note that the SC window does return to the screen and not minimize if it was on screen when capture initiated.

[Improvement] Better support for dragging and dropping images from other programs (especially web browser) onto main window.

[Improvement] Starting your word in the new screenshot filter edit box with ~ will show files that do NOT match what it typed next.

[Improvement] Caption dialog form now has a multiline memo for the caption text.

[Change] Iff multiple images are selected, the toolbar delete button will now delete all instead of just the current image.

[Change/Bugfix] Line/Arrow labels with "no-border" mode set could sometimes show a border; now the no-border option shows no border and draws label text directly over existing background.

[BugFix] Print preview settings (margins, orientation, etc.) triggered from post-capture dialog were not being synchronized with main print preview settings.

[BugFix] If you brought up Print setup dialog, and from their print properties dialog, it could be hidden behind main window.

[BugFix] Fixed case where the last file might not be loaded (or scrolled down to) at start of program.

[BugFix] The fix to keep printer setup dialog on top was messing with other forms appearing behind main window.

[BugFix] When SC was on screen at time of initiating capture, sometimes the current foreground window was not preserved as focused window (and did not show up in capture as an active window).

[BugFix] If a modal message was showing, it was possible to toggle main form visible or initiate a capture, hiding the modal message.

[BugFix] Redbox (scrolling and object capture modes) were not obeying the stay-minimized-after-capture options.

[BugFix] Choosing an object (like arrow) to draw, and changing properties BEFORE drawing, was not obeying new settings.

[BugFix] Fixed an error that could occur when using network paths for home/screenshot/config directories.

v4.5.0 - July 8, 2013

[Feature] Post-capture dialog now has a field where you can specify an optional quick custom filename.

[MinorFeature] New option to open windows explorer file browser to location of SaveAs image after a SaveAs.

[MinorFeature] New option to not uniquify filenames when launching the SaveAs dialog.

[MinorFeature] The file template field now has some suggestions in a drop down combo box.

[Feature] New options to customize the post-capture dialog to use it in faster one-key dismissal mode and with one key copy-to-clipboard action.

[Improvement] You can now set the custom character used to replace illegal filename characters (default is '_')

[Improvement+BugFix] Previously, the post-capture pop-up dialog operated on the image PRIOR to any alpha-transparency fixups that were applied to an active window capture; this could result in black areas around images that you copied to clipboard from within the postcapture dialog. Now such operations are performed prior to display in the post-capture dialog -- Thanks BillS!

[Change] If you try to trigger an active window capture from system tray menu you now get a message explaining that you can't trigger it that way.

[BugFix] Previous version was deleting old settings files into the recycle bin.

[BugFix] Random or black 1-pixel sized borders could appear at bottom and/or right border of image if anti-aliasing is enabled and an object with shadows is placed near bottom of image.

[BugFix/Change] Mask files should now end in the extension of the mask file format ("e.g. hands.png.maskjpg" if the mask is in jpg format; you can also use maskpng and maskgif)

v4.0 - March 26, 2013

[MajorFeature] Freehand painting/annotations; Like objects, can be edited after save.

[MajorFeature] New (dockable) QuickCapture bar.

[MajorFeature] Undo available for most object manipulation actions.

[MajorFeature] You can now specify custom comment in post-capture pop-up dialog; option to add caption for this comment and/or store it in image comments.

[MajorFeature] You can now capture shots from webcams (see Capture menu).

[MajorFeature] New super-easy-to-use built-in image host uploader (currently supports imm.io and imageshack [supports user accounts], more to come); you can still configure the use of ShareX or others if you prefer; warning given on first upload.

[Feature] You can now save and load your entire configuration settings to/from different files, to make it easy to switch between groups of settings [see new menubar on options dialog]

[Feature] You can now save all selected images to an animated GIF file.

[Feature] Added Quick Expand Canvas item in Edit menu for quickly expanding the canvas around the image, which can be useful for adding annotations, etc.

[Feature] You can now define your own custom list of preset sizes that will be available in all resizing/regionsizeselection dialogs and menus (thumbnailer, resizer, etc.).

[Feature] Resizing and selection options can now work by percentages; you can also include percentage based resizing presets.

[Feature] The last directory and file format used in the SaveAs dialog are now remembered; defaults to PNG format.

[Feature] When moving old files into the archive directory, ScreenshotCaptor now shows a summary balloon tray message.

[Feature] Active window selection and information capture is now smarter about choosing a window or sub-window within the capture region if capturing an area that does not include a foreground active window, or especially if performing an arbitrary region capture. New option (See Window Capturing 1 options tab) to control this.

[Feature] Added more color options for captions (see Automatic Captions tab in options to set defaults); better captions during printing.

[Feature] You can now nudge objects in the same variety of ways you can use to adjust selection (use ctrl,shift,alt and arrow keys to move, grow, shrink); faster object nudging.

[Feature] Selecting and adjusting objects now shows their position and size in status bar -- makes it easier to do fine adjustments.

[Feature] Now provides tip on how to speed up saving with many objects and semi-transparency when GDI+ option is off.

[Feature] New option to flatten transparency during normal saving (PNG images will not exhibit transparency but will preserve it internally for editing).

[Feature] You can now drop files onto the main window and you will be prompted to make some choices (copy or move files into Screenshot directory, add image files as objects onto current image, or switch to the dropped file and path).

[Feature] Added option to check for updates at startup.

[Feature] In addition to creating animated gifs, you can now display them in SC and easily extract frames (works same as for video files).

[Feature] You can now right-click on any clipart object and have it applied as a (tiled) background watermark; you can right-click clipart or frames and choose to view a preview in external viewer.

[Feature] Added blendmode property to bitmap objects.

[Feature] New option to tell SC not to save active window internal meta data to file comment meta data; useful if you are using images with an application that extracts and uses file comment meta data.

[Improvement] Repeat region capture will now repeat a caption of the region of the screen selected by a previous *object* capture.

[Improvement] Some operations that changed directories was not forcing save of dirty file first.

[Improvement] You can drag a folder onto the main window to instruct Screenshot Captor to switch to that directory.

[Improvement] Improved application startup time.

[Improvement] Added some tooltip hints to some controls.

[Improvement] SaveAs folder and format now remembered and used in all places where SaveAs dialog is shown.

[Improvement] SaveAs will now use default filename template, and default to a uniquified safe filename.

[Improvement] Added option to enable/disable the retrieval of URLs from browsers, and a note about possible slowdowns when doing so; disabled Firefox URL retrieval option by default since it can cause serious capture slowdowns.

[Improvement] The Moveto/Goto folder list is now kept in canonical state, handles blank lines, and has a new option to automatically add new folders to it, like a Most-recently-used list.

[Improvement] Setup program will now offer to launch Screenshot Captor after installation, even on Windows vista/7/8.

[Improvement] Double-clicking an object in region-select mode will now switch to object mode and select the object under cursor; double-clicking in object mode toggles you back to normal region-select mode.

[Improvement] The Watermarking submenu of the SpecialFx menu now shows all files in the clipart directory with watermark in their path or name, plus all files in user watermark directory; this makes it easier for addon clipart to include watermarks; see also feature for quickly applying any clipart object as watermark.

[Improvement] Improved external tool configuration dialog.

[Improvement] Removed old clipart directory; packaged now with DC member App103's nice clipart; moved old clipart into a separate addon download; removed separted Masks directory and rearranged Frames directory.

[Improvement] Clicking on a clipart item shows it's full path in statubar.

[Improvement] SC now creates a MyClipart and MyFrames directories in the user-writable SC folder where configuration settings are stored, and adds this to the clipart (and watermark) and frame folder list.

[Improvement] SaveAs dialogs now have more advanced options that can be chosen for some image file formats.

[Improvement] Better tracking of object manipulation for undo actions; better reporting of undo actions and indications of where in undo stack you are (shown on statusbar); larger undo buffer (from 10 to 100).

[Improvement] Ctrl+A in object mode now selects all objects.

[Improvement] Grab Workspace item is now not shown in tray or quickcap bar if running on single monitor system.

[BugFix] Hitting 'c' in region capture mode to set cursor position was sometimes leaving corruption overlayed on capture.

[BugFix] When loading low-depth PNG files (or perhaps other non-png files), any alpha transparency added to background would not be saved.

[BugFix] Some operations involving selection of files behaved erratically if thumbnail panel was configured to be hidden.

[BugFix] Rotating bitmaps now respects aspect ratios.

[BugFix] Top labels for zoom percentages were overlapping on large-text setups.

[BugFix] Program was never saving changes on exit, regardless of the option to do so.

[BugFix] Arrow objects could sometimes be created where the lines would be invisible.

[BugFix] Fixed floating point exception that could occur if bitmap object was resized to 0 height or width.

[BugFix] SC was not releasing hotkeys when you are on hotkeys configuration page, making it hard to reassign hotkeys; they are now disabled when on this tab.

[BugFix] When scanning, scan DPI information was not always being saved in the resulting PNG file, which could cause printable page size to be wrong if image files were manipulated or combined at a later time.

[BugFix] Some of the MoveALL and DeleteALL menu items were not always affecting all files if some were selected and some were not.

[BugFix] Print margins, alignment, gamma, were not being saved between runs.

[BugFix] When moving/copying/renaming files between folders entirely within the thumbnail browser panel (not using SC menus), the .object files associated with images were not accompanying image files.

[BugFix] SaveAs dialog was not displaying the "remove metadata?" checkbox on all Save As invocations.

[BugFix] Redo was not working on object manipulations.

[BugFix] Fixed bug where post-capture form could leave a remnant taskbar entry on closing [thanks app!]

[BugFix] Fixed some cases where main SC window was either hiding or grabbing focus after a capture when it shouldn't.

[BugFix] Fixed problems with shutting down on windows 7 and higher during reboots or upgrades.

[MajorFeature] Preliminary support for playing video files and extracting frames from them; and integration with Easy Screencast Recorder.

[MajorFeature] First draft of new (optional) onscreen quick capture bar. The look+feel of this will change dramatically in future versions.

[MinorFeature] Will now autodetect and work with SharexMod in addition to ShareX (they are based on same codebase and the differences are not super clear).

[InterfaceChange] New hierarchical organization of options dialog.

[BugFix] When capturing the active window and main form was visible, SC sometimes failed to properly grab it; SC now does a better job of grabbing last active window, with less delay in reactivating it.

[BugFix] Scrolling capture dialog could hide behind main window.

[MinorImprovement] Scrolling capture dialog now has help button that links to online scrolling capture tutorial video.

[Improvement] Small performance improvement in dragging selection (can still be slow to update tweaking selection size when zoomed out and resize filter is enabled).

[BugFix] Scrolling the clipart (or frame) thumbnail panel very quickly could result in error about "List Index Out of Bounds".

[BugFix] Access Violation Errors could be triggered (especially on selected region capture) after the disconnection of a monitor on a multimon system (perhaps also after monitor resolution changes, hibernation wakeup, remote desktop connection/disconnection).

[BugFix] Scrolling capture option dialog settings were not being saved.

[Feature] When applying bluring/interlacing/hiding effects, the transparency of the image is now flattened, to avoid leakage of information that could occur with transparency interactions.

[Feature] New option (checked by default) to get actual scan DPI after scanning.

[Feature] Image captions now support multiline captions (use \n).

[Feature] Image captions now support %filememo% for contents of the file memo box.

[Feature] Image captions now include left and center align options.

[Feature] You can now have captions auto-applied to new screenshots.

[Feature] You can now have captions automatically added to printouts (can be used to print date, application name, contents of below-image file memo, etc.)

v3.04.01 - Apr 12, 2012

[BugFix] Panel height for resizable bottom info panel was not being saved/restored between runs.

[Feature] Selection (marching ants) is now shown live in the bottom left zoom panel (cursor location is now shown more clearly too).

[BugFix] Dirty files are saved prior to executing a zupload action (ensures you dont upload a file that has changed but not been saved yet).

[Feature] Added cancel button in options to abandon any changes made in options dialog.

[Feature] Installer now has checkbox to start-with-windows (unchecked by default); you can use /MERGETASKS="startforall" if you want to enable this by default during install.

[Feature] You can now use alt+arrows to nudge upper left corner of selection (use shift+arrows to nudge bottom right corner, plain arrows to move selection box, and ctrl+arrows to adjust both corners).

[Feature] Color of pixel under cursor is now shown on statusbar menu toolbar; hit Ctrl+Alt+B in main window to copy it to cursor (or use alt+E to choose copy color from Edit menu).

[MajorFeature] When performing a selected-region capture you can now see a zoomed inset window showing magnified pixel details and precise selection crosshairs; see options for control over the zoom magnification and panel size, and to disable.

[Feature] You can now move the cursor icon to be captured when performing a selected-region capture; just hit the C key to move it under the mouse. You can even use this to ADD the cursor if you do not have "capture cursor" mode enabled by default.

[Feature] In selected-region capture you can hit the spacebar to reset the starting selection box position (escape cancels).

[MinorFeature] Option added to revert to old small crosshairs in selection-region capture mode.

[BugFix] Using the MoveTo.. menu item to browse to a folder already on the MoveTo list would result in duplicate directories being added.

v3.03.01 - Mar 20, 2012

[BugFix] Moving of screenshots into OLD folder based on dates was not using local time zone, so folder date labels could be off by a few hours.

[MinorFeature] New option to clear arrow endpoint text when new arrows are created.

[Feature] From File menu you can now save selected screenshots into one PDF; improve page sizing for PDF files.

[Feature] New function in File menu to delete all selected files.

[Feature] Added some system SendTo items to the SendTo folder.

[Feature] When sending email via MAPI you can now leave TO field blank (to be filled out in your email program).

[MinorChange] Added longer delay after capturing selected region image with cursor, in order to give time to move cursor to desired position.

[Feature] After you initiate an object capture, you can now hit the hotkey to trigger it again in order to indicate that the current region should be captured and saved, but object mode left open to capture another; useful for performing several repeat captures.

[Feature] New option to not show email info dialog when using MAPI.

v3.00.00 - Feb 5, 2012 - Gizmo Edition

[MajorFeature] New splice effects (ragged edge, etc.); also available in cropping and in border menu.

You can now comment on this announcement thread. Comments will be split off onto a new thread with each new release. I think this will make it easier for people to discuss releases but still keep the announcements clean.

I have now switched to ver 2.28.05, and the problems I reported earlier with the automatic copy to clipboard now seems to be solved - excellent!There is however a new problem, the image now has a DPI of 200, no matter what settings I make in the preferences. I have also tried to change the DPI from the SpecialFX menu after the image have been captured, but I still end up with 200 DPI and this results in a very small image when I paste it into an email. Of course I can scale it up, but again it's one extra step...This was not an issue in the last version.

When copying and pasting to programs that support DPI information, Screenshot Captor now honors the DPI settings in options (solves bug where images were small when being copied and pasted into outlook, etc).

How to use it? I grab an area and auto save to png file with dpi=300. When I insert picture from this file in MS word or OOo, it's still small (same as previous versions). I can find the dpi=300 information in the png file with irfanview. I can also delete this information with it. After that, inserting pic from the irfanview revised png file into doc will get a correct result. when use gif and other file formats, it's OK. when just copy & paste, (instead of insert image from file), it's OK.

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yes, i have tried 72dpi, but It's not exact the 100% size in word. On my thinkpad, when i set 95 dpi, it's nearly the 100% (also most clear) size.but, i think for the best effect when insert image from png file to ms word or OOo, the png file should have no info of dpi. when use gif and other file formats (there is no dpi info in file), it's OK. when just copy & paste, (instead of insert image from file), it's OK.

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Bug?I have always had a problem with the last file in the thumbnail display: the filename is always hidden on the bottom past the area where the scroll stops. When I click on it to rename the file (this happens when the filename takes up two lines, which is most of the time), I can't go down far enough. Usually, I have to use the keyboard to navigate the filename, because the mouse won't reach. Anyway, I've attached a picture. Anyone else experience this? Actually, I can't figure out how to take a screenshot of it...Furthermore, it happens when you single-click on the filename to rename it. The long filename turns into a cursor-box, but the width of the box is much narrower than the width of the filename before you click on it. So, the two-line filename is now three or four lines, and the extra lines don't fit in the two line box. I suggest either keeping the rename box width the same as the regular display width, or making the rename box high enough to accommodate the whole filename without scrolling. Am I anal or what?

Everyone should definitely upgrade to 3.36 since it includes a fix for active window selection which i broke recently in 3.34 or 3.35.

Vista users should furthermore make sure they have 3.36.03, since only with this release did i finally fix it so the license key is always saved properly and found on restart. (if you dont use vista then 3.36.01 is fine).